Origin of the name:

1. The lake is located in the western part of Hangzhou city, and it has nothing to do with Xishi.

2, in fact, before the Tang Dynasty, the West Lake had many other names, such as Wulinshui, Ming Sheng Lake, Trouble Lake, Jinniu Lake, Longchuan, Xiling Lake, Qiantang Lake, Shanghu and so on more than a dozen names, the elegant name of Xizi Lake appeared only after the poem of Su Shi was widely circulated.

West Lake from the allusion:

The legend of the heavenly golden girl jade dragon and golden phoenix in the Milky Way on the island of the fairy picked up a piece of jade, after a number of years of polishing, into a magical pearl with magic, pearl shine can form an oasis and let the flowers bloom.

The Queen Mother of the Heavenly Court knew and sent the heavenly soldiers and generals to snatch the pearl, and in the process of snatching it, the pearl fell to earth and became the beautiful West Lake. This magical legend makes the beauty of West Lake more mysterious.

Expanded Information:

West Lake is the largest lake in China. p>The story of West Lake

1, the White Snake and Xu Xian

China's four classical legends of the "White Snake", Xu Xian and the White Snake lady met here, the same boat back to the city; and after the encounter here to meet again, and the words back together, interpretation of the "Broken Bridge Meeting" this many kinds of theater as a repertoire of the folding play.

The Legend of the White Snake, which matured and flourished during the Qing Dynasty, is a model of collective Chinese folk creation. It describes a twisted love story between a snake spirit who has cultivated into human form and a human being. The story includes such episodes as the borrowing of an umbrella from a tented boat, the White Snake stealing the ganoderma lucidum herb, the flooding of San Francisco, the Broken Bridge, the Thunder Peak Pagoda, the sacrifice of the pagoda by Xu Xian's son, Shilin, and the attempt by Fahai to escape death by disappearing into the belly of a crab.

2, shrimp dragon Wei

Sandun has a place called shrimp dragon Wei. This "dragon" Some people think that the writing is wrong, it should be "cage", said only lobster, no shrimp dragon. That "shrimp cage" is to capture the bamboo cage of the river shrimp, this area used to weave shrimp cage in every household. In fact, both names are correct. What is this all about?

The legend says that when Zhu Yuanzhang Jiangnan, one day, traveling to the village of Sandun shrimp dragon Wei. The strategist Liu Bowen looked around and couldn't help but sigh in admiration: "A good feng shui treasure!" But after learning that this village is called "shrimp dragon Wei", he was worried that the people are still to be pacified but to be chaotic thieves, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to be in the village to open the river, the name of the elimination of flooding, meaning to cut off the "Wanglong" backbone.

And ordered in two miles from the village of the river pier east and west, respectively, to build two stone bridges, the west side of a bridge called the Wenxing Bridge, the east side of a bridge called the Wuxing Bridge, in order to completely break the feng shui.

Bridge built, Liu Bowen look and bad, shrimp dragon is the dragon of shrimp, also known as "lobster". "Lobster" to swim down the river to run away, so that the emperor's "dragon position" to be unable to keep. So he let the villagers cut down the bamboo, split into bamboo wire, woven into a gourd-like cage, put some bran in the cage as bait, it will be put into the river to try, and sure enough, the shrimp are obediently bound to the fruit.

3, the Golden Lotus Temple

Ming Dynasty years of early one morning, in Hangzhou, the canal side of the pier, there is a Taoist look like a man waiting for the sedan chair, ready to take the sedan chair to catch the road. Just at this time there are two sedan chairmen carrying an empty sedan chair to meet, the Taoist look like a person will wave his hand to call the sedan chairmen to stop, persuade the two sedan chairmen to go on the road first, and then bargained that they will not treat them poorly and then left the dock.

They went all the way through the pine wood field, through the West River flower dock, and then through the West and East two Mu dock, has been carried to the ten miles of the mountain on the big ridge. The sedan bearer rested for a few moments and then continued on his way, pointing to the mountain path on the right and asking the bearer to carry him upwards. Sedan chairman spent nearly two hours in the high mountains on the dangerous road but carried very easily, like walking on the ground. They carried it to the top of the mountain and stopped in front of a temple, where the Taoist priests entered the temple.

They did not see the Taoist out for a long time, they went into the house to find people to pay, strange temple empty - people, but see the hall sitting in front of a statue of God, holding a sword, imposing, the two sedan chairmen had to recognize their own bad luck will be out of the temple ready to go down the mountain. Just as they walked to the front of the sedan chair, but saw the sedan chair on the two red packets, and found that the number of money loaded inside was 10 times more than they expected.

Again, this temple is the Zhenwu Temple, the temple this statue is Zhenwu Sheng Di, this time is the Sheng Di Bodhisattva incarnated as a mortal, from the Wudang Mountain back to his hometown. It is rumored that the Holy Emperor is very spiritual and can answer any request, so there are a lot of worshippers who go to the Old Jiao Mountain to worship him. Later, a group of believers, fearing that the mountain was too high and far away for them to pay homage to, intended to invite the Bodhisattva to be worshipped in the vicinity of Longmenkan Village.

In the end, after resting on the hill below the Old Jiao Mountain, they could not carry it anymore. In this way the people then built a temple on the spot. From then on, the old Jiao Mountain on the Zhenwu Temple was moved to the mountain near Longmenkan.

Baidu Encyclopedia - West Lake (West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province)